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Feelings of isolation, boredom and uncertainty coupled with the proliferation of Zoom happy hours and creative boozy concoctions like ‘quarantinis,’ have been a recipe for relapse for some.

Blinking and rasping, the patient admits that it’s hard for him to breathe. He is suspected to have COVID-19 and he needs to be intubated. It’s a routine procedure that has taken on added risk because it so easily “aerosolizes” the germs that cause the disease, sending them widely into the air.

How does a health system manage the need for organ transplants during a global pandemic?

Conversations in the news, at home, and in the workplace are frequently turning to reopening and co-existing with SARS-CoV-2. How do we do it, and how can we stay safe?

Cars crowded along 59th Street and wrapped around the block on the first day that Sayre Health Center opened its COVID drive/walk-through testing site in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia.

For Susan Weiss, PhD, a professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine with more than four decades of experience studying coronaviruses, the pandemic means more work for her, and her students, post-docs, and technicians, than ever before.

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine scientists and clinicians have begun an unprecedented number of studies and clinical trials investigating a single virus, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19, the disease it causes.

“Penn Palliative Care has been a bright spot during one of the darkest times,” Uy said. “There is no question about that. This situation highlights that when different sites of care collaborate, it can be a win-win for everybody.”

At a time when individuals are being asked to socially distance, music is helping people connect like never before. For staff at Penn Medicine, one program is making this abundantly clear.

For Parker-Magnum — as well as many other cancer patients at the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) — the coronavirus pandemic would cause changes in their care … and accommodations.